The Great Transition Quotes

“We don’t get to choose which battles we’re born into,” she says. “The only thing we get is to choose what we'll do. Will we join the fight? Or will we turn our backs?”
― Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

“Our biology pushes us to be with others, to help and to care. That’s why it’s so easy to fall in love.”
― Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

“Inside every battery is a piece of a storm when you think about it”
― Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

“There’s nothing better than being part of a cause larger than yourself. Nothing comes close.”
― Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

“Fall asleep together. Wake up. Repeat and repeat until we are old and soft and our memories a little crumbly so only the happy bits are left.”
― Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

“I remember Joanna describing that moment after a movie wraps when the set comes down and you see how flimsy the backdrop was all along. That was the feeling: like our world was something we had all made up-so why not just make it differently?”
― Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

“I’m telling you my dude, helping is the only thing that helps. Be a part of a team. It’s the most human thing we could do. It’s in our DNA.”
― Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

“What they call terrorism, I call solidarity with life. THEY are the terrorists.”
― Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

“Solidarity. The team of teams, the high of highs.”
― Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

“Every generation feels different from the ones below. I know that. But this distance feels different.”
― Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

“America had a long history of sending prisoners to fight fires. We were following a tradition.”
― Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

“My body is an ocean of turbines humming, millions of blades spinning in a dizzying blur.”
― Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

“What it came down to was saving each other’s butts.”
― Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition